The role of the media (including social media) is to move in lockstep with US domestic and foreign policy. This has been known for some time [1]. It's never as

The role of the media (including social media) is to move in lockstep with US domestic and foreign policy. This has been known for some time [1]. It's never as simple as the White House calling up Mark Zuckerberg and saying "hey, silence X". It's about a series of filters that decides who is in the media and who has their thumb on the algorithmic scales, as per the famous Noam Chomsky Andrew Marr interview [2] ("What I'm saying is if you believed something different, you wouldn't be sitting where you're sitting"). Noam Chomsky is a national treasure. When a former Netanyahu adviser and Israeli embassy staffer seemingly has the power to suppress pro-Palestinian speech on Meta platforms [3], nobody should be surprised. If you're a US citizen who is a journalist critical of a key US ally, that ally is allowed to assassinate you without any objection of repercussions [4]. This is also why Tiktok originally got banned in a bipartisan fashion: the Apartheid Defense League director Jonathon Goldblatt said (in leaked audio) "we have a Tiktok problem" [5] and weeks later it was banned. Tiktok simply suppresses pro-Palestinian speech less than other platforms. [1]: https://chomsky.info/consent01/ https://chomsky.info/consent01/ [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvGmBSHFuj0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvGmBSHFuj0 [3]: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/metas-israel-policy-chief-pushed-removal-pro-palestinian-instagram-posts-report https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/metas-israel-policy-chief... [4]: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/16/israeli-forces-killed-abu-akleh-without-justification-un-inquiry-says https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/16/israeli-forces-kil... [5]: https://x.com/Roots_Action/status/1767941861866348615 https://x.com/Roots_Action/status/1767941861866348615